Sedona, AZ Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

010(C) sits inside the city's chapter on explosives hazards, and it states plainly that open burning of any material is unlawful at any time within Sedona. The only exception written into the code is for agricultural waste, which may be burned if the burner first obtains a permit from the Sedona fire department; a copy of that permit must then be given to the police chief by the permittee. The same section also requires anyone who wants to blast or use powder, fireworks or other explosives within city limits to first obtain a written permit from the fire department, with a copy provided to the city engineer and the police chief, and it separately bars storing or maintaining explosive or hazardous material except as allowed under the International Fire Code adopted by the Sedona fire department.

Because the outdoor-burning ban carries no exemption for campfires, brush piles, trash or yard debris, anyone in Sedona wanting to burn anything other than permitted agricultural waste needs to look outside this section, most often to a Coconino National Forest or county fire restriction rather than to a city permit that does not exist for that purpose. The chapter itself has no dedicated penalty clause, so a violation falls back to the city's general penalty provision in Title 1.